Axion Minicluster Halo Limits from Wide Binary Disruption
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| author | Wang, Zihang Gao, Yu |
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| contents | Axionic dark matter can form miniclusters and minicluster halos from inhomogenuities in the early Universe. If MCHs are sufficiently massive, their existence can be revealed by small-scale gravitational tidal perturbation to halo-like binary star system in the Galaxy. The observed population of the Milky Way's wide-separation binaries with $a\gtrsim\mathcal{O}(0.1)\,$ parsec offer a sensitive test to dynamic evaporation from MCHs. Considering data from recent GAIA observations, we derive significant constraints on the MCH fraction of the galactic dark matter halo. For several scenarios including dense MCHs and isolated minicluster models, these limits will apply to axion-like particles in the mass range $m_{a}\sim 10^{-15}-10^{-12}\,\rm eV$ and $m_{a}\sim 10^{-19}-10^{-16}\,\rm eV$, respectively. |
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| spellingShingle | Axion Minicluster Halo Limits from Wide Binary Disruption Wang, Zihang Gao, Yu High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Axionic dark matter can form miniclusters and minicluster halos from inhomogenuities in the early Universe. If MCHs are sufficiently massive, their existence can be revealed by small-scale gravitational tidal perturbation to halo-like binary star system in the Galaxy. The observed population of the Milky Way's wide-separation binaries with $a\gtrsim\mathcal{O}(0.1)\,$ parsec offer a sensitive test to dynamic evaporation from MCHs. Considering data from recent GAIA observations, we derive significant constraints on the MCH fraction of the galactic dark matter halo. For several scenarios including dense MCHs and isolated minicluster models, these limits will apply to axion-like particles in the mass range $m_{a}\sim 10^{-15}-10^{-12}\,\rm eV$ and $m_{a}\sim 10^{-19}-10^{-16}\,\rm eV$, respectively. |
| title | Axion Minicluster Halo Limits from Wide Binary Disruption |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.02468 |